I’m neither a conservative nor a theist, but I often feel rather underrepresented here. I tend to refrain from posting, period, because of the general sense of how that goes; I usually go through a bit of a cycle where I won’t post at all for a while, then find some random, pretty neutral thing I feel prepared to comment on intelligibly, then get drawn into whatever userbase-splitting argument is going on recently after it’s been a while (this part mostly happens if I’ve been low on spoons, am feeling irate, or just generally am not feeling much impulse control at the time).
Part of this is just that I’m not very good at arguing-as-a-skill; I’ve noticed that even when correct I’m fairly easy to outmaneuver because that particular approach to language is fairly alien to me (probably to do with some of the neurological blah).
And then certain types of misogyny or other dumbassery will end up making me rage-quit for a month or two, where I just no longer feel any desire whatsoever to participate, beyond maybe a media post.
I’m neither a conservative nor a theist, but I often feel rather underrepresented here. I tend to refrain from posting, period, because of the general sense of how that goes; I usually go through a bit of a cycle where I won’t post at all for a while, then find some random, pretty neutral thing I feel prepared to comment on intelligibly, then get drawn into whatever userbase-splitting argument is going on recently after it’s been a while (this part mostly happens if I’ve been low on spoons, am feeling irate, or just generally am not feeling much impulse control at the time).
Part of this is just that I’m not very good at arguing-as-a-skill; I’ve noticed that even when correct I’m fairly easy to outmaneuver because that particular approach to language is fairly alien to me (probably to do with some of the neurological blah).
Ditto.
And then certain types of misogyny or other dumbassery will end up making me rage-quit for a month or two, where I just no longer feel any desire whatsoever to participate, beyond maybe a media post.